Re: [HoE] [Hopler] EMP vs. Black Hats

[PEGHopler@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/2/99 3:16:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
darrin@neobright.net writes:

<< Buffy the Doomsayer wants to use EMP on some black hats. The Black Hats
 have chipped brain bombs, chipped assault rifles, and are riding around
 in a chipped HMV. Will EMP work on them, what's the TN, and do their
 brains automatically explode? >>

EMP does work on Combine equipment. If a Combine chip is shorted out by EMP, 
the attached charge detonates immediately. Throckmorton has taken steps to 
prevent this, of course, so the chips have some degree of hardening against 
this. The chips in individual soliders and small arms are considered military 
computers (TN 11). Combine vehicles and large, crew-served weapons have more 
shielding, requiring a TN of 13 to short.